Caring for Glaciers : Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas /

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"Set in the high-altitude Himalayan region of Ladakh, in northwest India, Caring for Glaciers looks at the causes and consequences of a transformation in people's relationship with the environment. It illuminates how relations of care and reciprocity-learned through everyday life and work...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gagne, Karine (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Human ecology.
Glaciers.
Environmentalism.
HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia
PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy
human ecology.
Environnementalisme.
Écologie humaine.
Glaciers > Inde > Ladākh.
Glaciers > Himālaya.
Glaciers > India > Ladākh.
Glaciers > Himalaya Mountains Region.
India > Ladākh.
Himalaya Mountains Region.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Morality and an ethics of care in the Himalayas
  • The loneliness of winter : continuity and change in the high mountains
  • Arthalis and beyond : a crack in the landscape
  • Becoming sentinel citizens : the reconfiguration of Ladakh into a border area
  • "Father white glacier" : incommensurable temporalities and eroding filial bond
  • Searching for Aba Stanzin : on the predicament of herders
  • Intimate glaciers and an ethics of care : mutual recessions
  • As glaciers vanish.

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